Innovations in plantar pressure and foot temperature measurements in diabetes
Plantar pressure and temperature measurements in the diabetic foot primarily contribute to identifying abnormal values that increase risk for foot
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Osteomyelitis: When Is Specialized Wound Care or Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Indicated?
When a patient with diabetes develops osteomyelitis, or a bone infection of the foot, early diagnosis and treatment can help
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Whole genome sequencing reveals hidden transmission of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales
Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales (CPE) infection control practices are based on the paradigm that detected carriers in the hospital transmit to other patients who
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Evaluation of clinical harm associated with Omicron hospital-onset COVID-19 infection
The COVID-19 pandemic has seen waves of hospital-onset COVID-19 infection (HOCI).1, 2, 3 As community prevalence rose and fell, so too did the
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Implementation of a quality improvement project using the patient as the observer to improve hand hygiene compliance in ambulatory care practices
Background Monitoring hand hygiene compliance in the ambulatory setting remains a challenge because a healthcare trained observer loses line of
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Incidence of infection with multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria and vancomycin-resistant enterococci in carriers: a systematic review and meta-regression analysis
Abstract Background: Carriers of multidrug-resistant bacteria are at risk of infections with these bacteria; the precise size of this risk is
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Editor’s Choice – Infra-inguinal Endovascular Revascularisation and Bypass Surgery for Chronic Limb Threatening Ischaemia: a Retrospective European Multicentre Cohort Study with Propensity Score Matching
Objective The aim of this study was to compare the long term efficacy of lower limb bypass with that of
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Individuazione precoce delle ulcere del piede diabetico attraverso l’intelligenza artificiale: un’importante aggiunta alla letteratura
I24 nostri amici e colleghi di lunga data di Manchester, guidati da B. Cassidy et al., hanno recentemente contribuito con un’importante
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Ulcera di Kennedy: ulcera terminale, cure palliative e assistenza in hospice
Gestione del rischio di lesioni da pressione/ulcera nelle cure palliative e negli hospice Le cure palliative e l’assistenza hospice non
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Perle e insidie da: Wound Culturing 101 #feriteinfette #biofilm
In “Wound Culturing 101 – Come ottenere correttamente una cultura della ferita” al WoundCon Summer, Susie Seaman, NP, MSN, CWCN,
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